The Senate will debate the charges and vote on whether to dismiss him next week.
Kenya’s high court ruled on Friday that a case challenging Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment should be referred to the Chief Justiceon 11 charges including enriching himself and stirring ethnic hatred. The deputy president denied all the allegations and said the case was absurd.Gachagua has said the impeachment motion was based on falsehoods that constituted a “choreographed political lynching”, according to the court documents seen by Reuters.
Gachagua outraged many in Ruto’s coalition for likening the government to a company and suggesting that those who voted for the coalition had first claim on public-sector jobs and development projects.Ruto has not commented publicly on the impeachment proceedings. The push to impeach Gachagua has divided Kenyans, with some saying that parliament should focus on the economy instead of politics, and others calling for both Ruto and his deputy to quit.Gauteng learners to be discharged after suspected food poisoning Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.
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